A LIVERPOOL businessman completed a gruelling five hour Olympic challenge to help the hospital that saved his life and joked: “That was nothing!”

Simon Lannon, 29, has had one lifesaving operation for every year of his life after being diagnosed with hydrocephalus, a birth defect which means fluid does not drain away from his brain.

And as a thank-you to medics he has pledged to raise £60,000 for the Walton Centre, Fazakerley, where he has undergone drastic surgery to fit life-saving titanium valves and shunts into his head.

As part of his efforts the architectural technician, who lives in the city centre, raised £5,000 after putting himself under an extreme test of physical and mental endurance by completing a triathlon at the Greens Health and Fitness Centre on Riverside Drive.